Working Hours and Labor Law

protests: Triggered by the government proposed amendment of the labor law, which endorses more autonomy for employers to extend working hours and decide whom to hire and when to dismiss an employee, the protests have once again led to dozens' arrests, workers' strikes and a paralysis of land and air transport, according to Xinhua China. However frequent and violent their demonstrations, the protesters are also well aware that in order to stimulate the national economy and resume the country competitiveness hampered by the decades-long inefficient social benefits net, France must reform its rigid employment system and reduce its high labor costs. Catching France in a quandary of social governance, the ongoing "Nuit Debout" or "Up All Night" protests have predictably swept France and turned into riots. The protests come at a time when the country reported merely 1.14 percent growth in 2015 with the youth unemployment rate up at 25 percent. It is certainly justifiable to start a national conversation on finding a solution to the country economic and social woes as some organizers wish. If kept unchecked, the standoff between labor unions and the government will only shake the nation budding resolve to reform and snatch the chance to reinvigorate the French economy, which will eventually become detrimental to the protesters' interests. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.